business objectives

Since it first started providing air passenger services in 2000, JetBlue has been
innovating. It was the first airline to embrace dot.com transactions and electronic
ticketing, and continues to churn out industry-leading inventions as described
here. When business needs changed in 2014, JetBlue embarked on very robust
digital transformation based on TIBCO integration and analytics technology—and
the company was recognized with the first-ever TIBCO Trailblazer Impact award
for the incredible effect this project was having on its strategic differentiation. In
this case study, Director of Shared Development Services Andi Azzolina describes
the objectives, initiatives, capabilities, and achievements making up JetBlue’s
journey towards becoming the most caring travel provider in the world.

Digital transformation (DX) is a must for midsize firms (those with 100 to 999 employees) to thrive in the digital economy. DX enables firms to increase competitive advantage through initiatives such as automating business processes, creating greater operational efficiencies, building deeper customer relationships, and creating new revenue streams based on technology-enabled products and services. DX is a journey, and it starts with firms embracing an IT-centric vision that guides a data-driven, analytics-first strategy. The outcome of DX initiatives depends on the ability of a firm to efficiently leverage people (talent), process, platforms, and governance to meet the firm’s business objectives.

Cisco's 2015 Mobility Landscape Survey provides new insights into how mobility is being approached by mid-market and enterprise organizations globally
Specific objectives include:
• Discovering insights into current strategy and future plans
• Identifying priority mobility initiatives and top challenges
• Learning how IT and Business leaders’ views, priorities and objectives align and differ
• Building a global and local view from over 1400 respondents across 14 countries in every geography

Cisco's 2015 Mobility Landscape Survey provides new insights into how mid-market organizations globally are approaching mobility.
Specific objectives include:
• Discovering insights into current strategy and future plans
• Identifying priority mobility initiatives and top challenges
• Learning how IT and business leaders’ views, priorities, and objectives align and differ
• Building a global and local view from over 1400 total respondents and over 570 who consider themselves mid-market, across 14 countries in every geography

Content marketing is driving the way marketing organizations are engaging their audiences. In our consumer-empowered world, it’s become more difficult for marketers to cut through clutter and a lot more challenging to garner loyalty with their audiences. That’s why smart content delivered in context will make you stand out in the crowd. Read the modern marketing essentials guide on Content Marketing now.

Download the Forrester Total Economic Impact™ of Gigamon: Cost Savings and Business Benefits Enabled by Gigamon to see how customers benefit from comprehensive and scalable visibility across their networks. This study delves into a cost-benefit analysis of the Gigamon security delivery platform, network visibility and traffic monitoring solutions that enable companies to see what matters in order to meet their security objectives, increase productivity and keep hardware, software and personnel costs in check without affecting performance.

Digital Transformation is the reinvention of business activities, processes, competencies, and models that fully leverage
current and future digital technologies. In today’s dynamic business environment, organizations across the board are
tasking IT to accelerate efforts to deliver a unique and compelling customer experience. At the same time, IT organizations
are adopting new approaches in order to better serve organizational goals. Organizations are adopting cloud technology to
drive agility, efficiency, and effectiveness to become more productive today, and to help ensure they can easily meet
future objectives.

Several years ago, a transformation in IT began to take place; a transformation from an IT-centric view of technology to a business-centric view of technology that Forrester refers to as business technology (BT). This transformation has a profound impact on the role of the CIO. The CIO must now view himself or herself as a business enabler. He or she must focus on continuously aligning with business objectives, improving delivery capability to support business processes that bring new products and services to market more quickly, fostering innovation, and reducing costs through improved performance. In this custom Technology Adoption Profile (TAP), the data confirms this trend.

Riverbed IT performance solutions allow you to align IT with the business objectives, accelerate applications and manage performance across the entire corporate network - at the data center, in the cloud, at branch offices, and for mobile workers. Businesses run faster and more efficiently, saving time and cutting the cost of infrastructure.

Business and IT leaders are looking to virtualization and cloud computing to deliver unprecedented agility for supporting a wide range of objectives, including cost management, increased mobility, higher application availability, and greater responsiveness to customer-related opportunities.

Data centers have become the epicenters of the digital world, and thus continue to grow in
speed, complexity, and importance. Whether an efficiently-run data center is a means to deliver
a service, e.g an Internet Content Provider (ICP), or if the data center is the primary business, e.g.
a multi-tenant data center (MTDC) - testing is a critical element in meeting customer SLAs and/
or internal performance objectives.

Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provides an abstraction that makes developers more productive by helping them focus on creating applications rather than dealing with infrastructures. This is important as information and its associated processing has become central to more businesses, even those in industries that haven’t been historically thought of as dependent on information technology. And that makes writing custom applications in support of an organization’s business objectives more important than ever.

You can succeed in your digital transfomation and deliver applications and services faster, better, and safely.
How? With Enterprise Agile Delivery. Enterprise Agile Delivery brings a wealth of benefits to organizations and can be adopted by any Agile hybrid framework: SAFe, LESS, Nexus as well as Agile/lean frameworks like Scrum and Kanban.
Yet to achieve Eneterprise Agile Delivery, enterprises need an easy to use modern ALM tool for quick and successful onboarding. Download this white paper to understand how the right solution will help you:
• Strategiaclly align feature releases and backlogs with your overall business strategy
• Identify and prioritize dev and test activities with visibility into project waves and portfolios
• Make data-based decisons for safe releases with real-time insights and multidimensional views into delivery risks
• Sync business, dev, QA and release teams around shared objectives with automated coordination and communication

To stand out in the application economy, businesses must add digital dimensions to the experiences they provide for customers, employees and partners. Such a “digital transformation” requires new thinking around IT—specifically, its capabilities and goals, and how the various teams must collaborate to deliver on business objectives. For many organizations, the best way to navigate the digital transformation is with DevOps.
In this ebook, you’ll learn more about the challenges digital transformation has created and how DevOps best practices, such as Agile Parallel Development, Continuous Delivery and Agile Operations, can be used to capitalize on opportunities and create competitive differentiation in the application economy.

In this whitepaper, we describe how executive and IT management can get and maintain control of their company's data architecture to help meet business objectives. We describe the relationship between data integration projects and data architecture concepts and practices. We describe how the business planning and IT development processes that direct and leverage data integration projects depend on tooling. We describe breakthrough ways in which data architects, business analysts, programmers, and business users can collaborate to address their organization's pressing business challenges.

This survey of senior managers and directors was conducted in four regions – North America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Central and South America, and Asia- Pacific – with the aim of discovering attitudes towards and plans for the adoption of cloudbased supply chain management (SCM) solutions.
We focused on three key areas:
1. The criticality of supply chain to their business
2. How to reach their business objectives through supply chain processes
3. The propensity to use the supply chain cloud and reasons for adopting/not adopting

This survey of senior managers and directors was conducted in four regions – North America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Central and South America, and Asia-Pacific – with the aim of discovering attitudes towards and plans for the adoption of cloud based supply chain management (SCM) solutions.
We focused on three key areas:
1. The criticality of supply chain to their business
2. How to reach their business objectives through supply chain processes
3. The propensity to use the supply chain cloud and reasons for adopting/not adopting

In today’s complex and distributed IT environments, identity and access management (IAM) programs do much more than simply manage user identities and grant access. They are at the core of achieving critical business objectives that are relevant to every high-performing organization. As a result, there are few IT or security initiatives that demand as much deliberation and scrutiny.

Create an environment where employee and managers can track assigned activities, communicate job performance expectations, and define goals that are aligned to business objectives. Performance management ensures that everyone is focused on the right initiatives to deliver results.